Saturday, October 20, 2012

Remants of the Past Show

I spent the evening with friends at our local antiques show, Remnants of the Past. This year Judy decided to have a 3 hour preview night before the show starts tomorrow morning which was wonderful since there was only a 1/4 of the people that will be at the show during the weekend.
We had a fabulous time shopping the show, talking to friends, and really just soaking in the beauty.
I am not going to comment too much here. Just wanted to share the vision of the evening. Of course I am going back in the morning for one more go round since it's not too often I get to drive 30 minutes up the road to a great show.
enjoy.

Edgar and Edgar (perfect Halloween booth)

You have to be close to the front of the line to get a good pumpkin. They go fast!

Junk Girls

I will say the highlight of the night was meeting Wendy Addison (seriously awesome). She and her daughter Monica were running the Tinsel Trading booth. Many of Wendy's beautiful glass glitter designs were available along with vintage trimmings and notions from Tinsel Trading in NYC. I bought some vintage metal sewing thread as well as glass glitter oak leaves for Christmas presents and a few surprises for friends.
Do you not love this hand painted background on plain kraft wrapping
paper? This design was repeated on all the walls of the booth and it
was just fabulous. This new booth is a great addition to the show and I am hoping she will return.

cuff bracelets from Le Muse

I think the pièce de résistance (like a wedding dress at the end of the fashion show) was this vintage 6 foot Christmas tree. It was the right color creme to make it beautiful and very reasonable priced at $220. I have never seen one like this before.
No, I didn't buy it but I wanted to.

But there is always tomorrow.
cheers for a great Saturday in your neck of the woods!
paula

What awesome displays! And to think they were 'in your backyard'! I could sit and drool over your pics for hours. So many clever and useful ideas for items destined for the garbage heap because they're no longer pretty or functional.

Oh my gosh, what I wouldn't give to shop there. I would have probably spent wayyyyyyy tooooo much money. Everything is amazing and the way it is all staged is pure eye candy.

I LOVE Tinsel Trading and I have several spools of vintage metallic thread from there. My in-laws live in Manhattan so I am able to shop there when I visit. I've never had the privilege of meeting Wendy, but i have some of her items from Tinsel Trading.

On one visit to the store Marcia- the owner- was working with someone who had to be a designer- he was super eccentric. He was shopping for vintage metallic fabrics that were hundreds of dollars a yard. He had his muse with him and they were talking dresses and red carpet. Marcia was nervous- or at least really really wanted to make him happy and she couldn't find the supplies she needed. It was fascinating to watch and I really wanted go over and say "excuse me, but can you tell me what is going on?" I'm so nosy.

This is SOOOO inspiring! I used to love it when Baltimore had all the big department stores downtown and you could walk past all the decorated windows. Christmas was always special because they went all out on the displays. When I sell my work at craft shows, usally I am busy up the last minute making things, and don't do anything special with my booth. Maybe I'll try something more crafty with it now!!!

No problem Jenny...long time fan of Junk Girls. In fact I currently have a giant tray of junk on my coffee table that came from you as well as a bunch of big round wood pieces I bought at the last show that I am using under domes. This time we all bought stamped necklaces (love that you guys stamped them right at the show).keep up the inspiring work!paula

Lucky Day...it's when you get the first parking space at a busy store or when you find the thing that you have been looking for forever or it's finding a friend when you weren't even looking for one. What a LUCKY day.